The New York Times: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94

He led a movement that rejected historiography's traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the "mental universe" of peasants, merchants and clergymen.

Source: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94